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Chuvash shchamakh

SAArchaeological or primary sourceFamily B · Steppe / Silk Road manti

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Region
Volga-Ural and Siberia (plus Karakalpakstan)
First record
1870 · Empires & migration
Fold
Half-moon
Cooked
Soup with "a kind of dumplings". The encyclopedia groups shchamakh with Turkic-Iranian dishes
Wrapper
Wheat doughUnfilled or filled (unclear)
Filling
Flour dough
Cooked
Soup with "a kind of dumplings". The encyclopedia groups shchamakh with Turkic-Iranian dishes
Size
About 4 cm across

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe or a precise place of origin for Chuvash shchamakh. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Where

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From Chuvashia.

  • OriginChuvashia · Volga-Ural · Chuvash

Evidence

Well established. An archaeological find or a primary source backs it.

We list 4 sources: 2 primary or archaeological, 2 dated texts. How grading works.

First record Rittikh, Kazanskaya guberniya, 1870, p. 61: small round dough cakes boiled in soup "under the name syumakh" (A); first found

Sources

  • A

    Казанская губернія, ч. 2 [Татары. Мещеряки. Чуваши. Черемисы. Вотяки. Мордва] (Kazan, 1870; Матеріалы для этнографіи Россіи, XIV), p. 61

    Archaeological or primary source · A. F. Rittikh; scan at Internet Archive · 1870

    p. 61, in the Chuvash chapter, after a comparison of Chuvash and "Persian" dishes credited to I. N. Berezin and Sboev: "Кромѣ того они ѣдятъ небольшія круглыя лепешки изъ ячневой крупы, которыя варятся въ яшкѣ съ… p. 61, in the Chuvash chapter, after a comparison of Chuvash and "Persian" dishes credited to I. N. Berezin and Sboev: "Кромѣ того они ѣдятъ небольшія круглыя лепешки изъ ячневой крупы, которыя варятся въ яшкѣ съ салмою, подъ названіемъ сюмахъ. Ихъ вынимаютъ изъ похлебки деревянными спицами, на подобіе того, какъ у дагестанцевъ ѣдятъ хинкалъ деревянными вилками." Page number read from the scan (leaf n64); wording from the OCR text.
  • A

    Русско-чувашскій словарь (Kazan, 1909), p. 118

    Archaeological or primary source · N. V. Nikolsky; scan at Internet Archive · 1909

    p. 118, entry "Запускать": "йар; йашка çине çăмах, салма йар" (to drop çămakh, salma into the yashka soup). Read on the page scan. The word is used without a gloss, as an ordinary thing put into soup beside salma.

  • D

    çăмах — combined dictionary page (section 'Чăвашла-вырăсла словарь (1919)')

    Dated text · samah.chv.su (Chuvash dictionaries portal) · 1919

    "Чăвашла-вырăсла словарь (1919)": çăмах = "клецки"; "çăмах йашки — суп из салмы". The page does not name the compiler (probably N. V. Nikolsky's short Chuvash-Russian dictionary, Kazan 1919 — NOT verified).

  • D

    çăмах — combined dictionary page

    Dated text · samah.chv.su · 1964; 1982

    Same page, later dictionaries: 1982 Chuvash-Russian dictionary — "национальное блюдо типа клецек, галушек или лепешек, сваренных в бульоне"; 1964 etymological dictionary — "шарообразные кусочки теста наподобие… Same page, later dictionaries: 1982 Chuvash-Russian dictionary — "национальное блюдо типа клецек, галушек или лепешек, сваренных в бульоне"; 1964 etymological dictionary — "шарообразные кусочки теста наподобие украинских галушек, сваренные в супе или молоке", with Turkic cognates; the undated "Чăваш сăмахĕсен кĕнеки" (apparently Ashmarin's thesaurus; not identified on the page) — "шарики из теста, мешанного с маслом и яйцами", pieces of dough put into "яшка". Confirms an unfilled dumpling.

Notes from the research

Ethnographic survey.

Family B

Kin

  • Halushky
  • salma · 12.2

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